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Event | Upping the Anti-museum: Covid-19 and its Aftermath | Sir William Dobell Lecture 2020

November 13, 2020Events

Annual Sir William Dobell lecture Upping the Anti-museum: Covid-19 and its Aftermath Wednesday 25 November 2020 Prof. Adrian Franklin, Professor of Creative Industries and Cultural Policy, University of South Australia Prof. Franklin is known for his work on MONA and the development of para- and anti-museums. His most recent book, Anti-Museum (Routledge 2020) is an analysis of alternative museum practices in Australia, Europe and the USA. Franklin’s presentation reflects on how both he and his research field have been directly and rapidly transformed by the COVID-19 crisis. What was, in Anti-Museum, a challenge to reassess exhibitions, audiences and engagement has […]

PRIZE | AAANZ RESEARCH IN FOCUS ONLINE PRIZE 2020 | ENTRIES CLOSE 12 NOVEMBER

November 6, 2020Prizes

AAANZ RESEARCH IN FOCUS ONLINE PRIZE 2020 Due to Covid-19 the 2020 AAANZ Conference is not proceeding this December. The AAANZ Executive Committee has proposed to run the annual PhD prize in an alternative mode. With consideration regarding feedback received around the prize format from previous years, the 2020 prize will be based upon a video presentation of research and will be open to all current PhD candidates and recent graduates. Early career researchers are invited to prepare a short video that focuses on their research. They can talk to their entire PhD project, or choose a sub topic. Videos […]

Register | ACUADS Conference Crisis and resilience: art and design looks ahead | November 2020

October 30, 2020Events

ACUADS Conference Crisis and resilience: art and design looks ahead 5, 12, 19 & 26 November 2020 In light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the devastation of recent Australian bushfires, the 2020 ACUADS Conference will explore the theme of crisis and resilience. With the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic yet to be realised and a recent Australian defence report warning of Australia’s vulnerabilities to overlapping ‘crises as diverse as cyberwar, climate-induced catastrophe and a pandemic,’ is our sector prepared for an unpredictable future? In this time of unprecedented global uncertainty, what can be learned from the impacts of […]

Talks | Reading Bennett: The Artist in his own Words | Power Institute

October 23, 2020EventsTalk

A morning of readings and reflections to mark the launch of a landmark new survey of writings by the artist Gordon Bennett (1955-2014). About this Event Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings brings together nearly forty published and unpublished essays, artist’s statements, letters, and interviews from across Bennett’s three-decade career. Selected Writings profiles the importance of the written word within the artist’s art and broader intellectual practice. To launch the volume, and coinciding with QAGOMA’s major Gordon Bennett retrospective, four speakers will select pieces from Bennett’s archive to read, and will then respond to his words in the context of their own practice and/or scholarship: […]

Call for Submissions | Context and Meaning XX: Art and Crime | Queen’s University

October 23, 2020Call for Papers, Conference

Call for Submissions | Context and Meaning XX: Art and Crime | Graduate Visual Culture Association | Queen’s University Extended submission deadline | 1 November 2020 The Graduate Visual Culture Association (GVCA) at Queen’s University is seeking submissions for a graduate research conference exploring the intersections of art and crime. Hosted by the Department of Art History and Art Conservation and the GVCA, this year’s conference will take place from 22 January 2021 to 23 January 2021. Details about format and keynote speaker will be announced in the coming weeks. Call for papers and further details about the conference themes […]

Call for Papers | INDEX Journal Issue No. 3 ‘Monument’

October 12, 2020Call for Papers

~ CALL FOR PAPERS ~ ISSUE No. 3 MONUMENT If colonial monuments can be understood as ruins, in the sense that they symbolise the destructive force of conquest, what can be salvaged from the framework of monumentalism? INDEX JOURNAL invites papers that contemplate the relation between public monuments and ruin. Papers addressing monuments in the context of materiality, environment, image, emotion, revenge, authority, colonial expansion, white supremacy, and state propaganda are all encouraged and considered. Issue No. 3 MONUMENT is guest edited by Tristen Harwood, a Darwin-based Indigenous writer and critic. Papers should be no more than 7,500 words and […]

AAANZ 2020 ECR and PhD Prize – Research in Focus

October 12, 2020AWAPA, News

As the 2020 AAANZ conference is not running this year, the AAANZ executive committee has proposed to run the annual PhD prize in a different mode. This is also in response to feedback on the prize format in previous years. This year’s prize will be based upon a video presentation of research and will be open to all current PhDs and recent graduates. The winner will receive $1,000 sponsored by Taylor and Francis. Deadline – Thursday November 12th, 2020. AAANZ Research in Focus – Online Online format – entrants submit a video (see website for details). Videos should be based […]

Symposium | At the Crossroad? Australia’s Cultural Future – Australian Academy of Humanities

October 2, 2020Events

16-21 November. Daily free webinars. The arrival of COVID-19, on the heels of a summer of natural disasters, has led to profound disruptions to cultural life in Australia, propelling our artists, creators, researchers and cultural institutions into survival mode, and throwing into stark relief the dramatic pre-pandemic shifts in cultural production, consumption and distribution. Yet the events of 2020 have also highlighted how deeply culture and creativity are embedded in the daily lives of Australians, giving claim to culture’s status as a public good. The 51st Academy Symposium – At the Crossroad? Australia’s Cultural Future – will explore Australia’s cultural terrain in light of recent […]

Conference | Know My Name | Online 10-13 November

September 29, 2020Conference

Know My Name Conference Tuesday 10 – Friday 13 November 2020 Delivered virtually over four afternoons and two evenings, the Know My Name Conference celebrates all women as artists, activists, researchers, intellectuals and mentors now and into the future. Foregrounding First Nations perspectives and diverse voices, the event will bring together leading and emerging Australian and international voices from arts and academia to share ideas, insights and creative practice. Through keynotes, performances, panels, discussions and artist-led approaches, the conference will consider historical and contemporary experiences of gender and feminism in the arts to imagine new futures. The conference is accessible, […]

Advocacy Letter | Art History MA program and for the Humanities | University of Hawai’i at Manoa

September 25, 2020Advocacy

As is the case with many other Humanities-related programs at UH-Manoa, the administration is considering “temporarily stopping out” the MA program in Art History until “the faculty can modify the program to attract more students.” This is despite the fact that the department has already successfully corrected every concern listed in the administration’s own recommendation document. In short, like other programs, the decision is not based on the actual value and health of the program, but purely on low graduate student enrolment and a low prioritization of the Humanities at the university. I argue that the MA program in Art […]